Saturday, 15 August 2015

Two Goes Total FM

On 15 August 1990 BBC Radio 2 shed its AM frequencies. It
was now FM all the way.

693 and 909 kHz was to be the home of BBC Radio 5, with its
launch date of 27 August 1990. Filling that 12-day interregnum was Radio 2's
usual sports coverage (Sport on 2 and
Sports Desks ) plus an Information Service. Essentially this was a
tape loop featuring many of the Radio 2 DJs offering advice to befuddled
listeners on how to re-tune to the FM service. On weekdays there were also live phone-in
sessions with Derek Jameson, Jimmy Young, David Jacobs, Gloria Hunniford, David Allan and Katie Boyle. .

This is how the service sounded on the morning of 15 August:

The day before Radio 5's launch we had less from Radio 2 and
more Radio 5 programme trailers. I recorded this on the morning of 26 August.

2 comments:

U R clearly a Brit radio fan.Here's Q; Capital Radio in the 1970s (75/76/77)There was a woman DJ on at weekends, Sunday for sure. (2-4pm I think)Any idea her name? I was googling around but someone may have offline schedules etc..

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Hailing originally from Hull and spending most of my life in East Yorkshire I'm now resident in France.
For over 30 years I've been interested in radio, tv and film and have an archive of off-air recordings and radio-related material.
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